Chapter 427 Self-introduction to the net [20k](1/2)
"Lt. General Skyler, Lieutenant General Skyler..."
Bingshan was introducing the business scope of himself and others, but found that Skyler had lost his mind and quickly called out. Skyler came back to his senses and asked, "What's wrong?"
Akainu also looked in the direction Skyler had just looked, but found nothing, so he was a little confused, but he didn't believe that Skyler was distracted like Kizaru.
After all, he noticed Skyler's distraction just now, unlike Kizaru's kind who first wandered the sky, then lost his perception, and eventually became sleepy. Skyler's distraction seemed to have a purpose.
He didn't care or ask, but took the initiative to help and said, "This time, the purchase of warships is prepared for my detachment. You can continue to introduce them to me."
Although Akainu escaped, Skyler could not find the figures of those people just now, so he focused on the talks.
It is said to be a talk, but it is actually just a preliminary negotiation. Now that these shipbuilding companies are about to merge, all technologies will be integrated at that time. In addition to the words of Iceberg, Akanu's hull also means to use Akanu's hull as a milestone.
Regarding the merger, Iceberg does not seem to have concealed Skyler and Akainu, or he has guessed the purpose of Skyler and Akainu.
The so-called ordering of warship hulls is just a reason, or just a matter of by the way. Exploring the merger of Qing Qishui Capital Shipbuilding Company is the focus of the two.
Although they did not officially announce the merger of the Hull Company, the president of the Shipbuilding Company frequently met and talked in the new building that appeared in the Seven Waters Capital.
Major shipbuilding companies have also held meetings, and various shipbuilders are even more involved in each other. As long as someone pays attention, they can infer that it is five or six, let alone the world government with a complete intelligence network.
"Admiral Akainu, Lieutenant General Skyler, I think it's getting late, so it's not so good to stand here and chat..."
Bingshan said, looking at the presidents of many shipbuilding companies behind him, and then turned around and said, "Why don't I set up a bureau tonight, let's get together, and let's brainstorm together to build a perfect warship for the Navy?"
Behind him, the presidents met one after another, Akainu nodded, Skyler thought for a while, and finally nodded, dinner was inevitable anyway.
If you spend money on your own, do you have to pay for it?
Nurkic noticed Skyler's hesitation. He didn't notice anything abnormal just now. He thought to himself that if it were Rosinandi, he might be able to discover why his commander had just been distracted.
After all, Rosinandi is best at peeping in secret. As the adjutant who helped Skyler take over the Night Emperor, Rosinandi is too familiar with lurking and assassination, Rosinandi is much better than Nurkic.
Therefore, Nurkic felt that Rossinandi and Ros were left in Marinfando, which was a weakening for the Zhanye Detachment.
At least if he is the only adjutant, he cannot completely solve Skyler's problems.
Skyler took Nurkic, Hamilton, Jinbe, and Akainu, and followed the iceberg and left the dock, while the others stayed on the warship.
After all, there are still many pirates in the Seven Water Capital, so I am afraid that there will be a few ignorant pirates who will do something to the warship. If there are not enough manpower on duty, there will be omissions.
The group came to a new building just built in the Seven Waters Capital. The junction of the first and second floors, as well as the rooftops, were covered with red cloth.
Skyler glanced at it and could only vaguely see the letters "G" and "C". Because he didn't care much about this matter, Skyler did not use his domineering perception or inquire about it.
After entering the new building, Iceberg and the staff in the new building explained a few words, and then said openly: "I wonder if General Akainu and Lieutenant General Skyler have heard of the upcoming merger of our companies?"
The iceberg was a little bit beyond the surprise of Skyler and Akainu. Skyler nodded and said, "I heard about it. I thought it was just a rumor. Is this the site selection after the merger?"
Seeing Bingshan telling the merger directly, Skyler seemed to be questioning but actually had an extremely confident attitude at this time, the presidents of several shipbuilding companies were a little worried.
After all, once these companies merge, they can be said to have monopolized the ship industry from here to Fishman Island, as well as all pirate ships, warships and merchant ships in the New World.
As for the Four Seas, the Seven Waters Capital has no intention of competing for the Four Seas market. After all, there are not many pirates and forces in the Four Seas, and the transportation costs are too expensive, so there is no need to compete.
Some franchisees will also take the initiative to come to them to order, and there is almost no need to promote or set up sub-sites. At the same time, ships that can be built in the Seven Waters Capital are also overflowing for the four seas, so there is no need to insert them.
However, monopolizing almost two great waterways is already a terrifying thing, and the world government's ships will also be affected to a certain extent.
After all, before, the seven major companies took the order of a single warship from the world government through bidding.
Once merged, the merged company will become the only choice. In this case, the world government will naturally have to worry. After all, there will only be one voice in the Seven Waters Capital.
If the support of the world government is put aside, then the world government’s orders will be issued and there will be no competition for each other, and no one will deliberately reduce the price, and the cost of the world government will naturally increase.
With this alone, the world government had enough reason to prevent them from merger, but the Iceberg said it openly. Is he really not worried that Skyler and Akainu should stop it directly?
Skyler didn't seem to object to their merger at this time, but... any businessman can't change his face in seconds, and they can, and the Navy can naturally do it too.
Although Skyler is smiling now, it may not be necessary to draw his sword in the next second.
The Iceberg was under great pressure at this time, and Skyler's words made him understand that the world government, or at least the navy, had already known a lot of details of their merger.
He has never concealed it, just because he is afraid that the Navy would think that they had any other intentions besides normal commercial mergers. Although... this seems to be a fact, it must not be seen by the Navy.
Therefore, Bingshan has always maintained an open and honest attitude, actively releasing some information to stabilize these two generals, but judging by what Skyler means now, it seems that he knows a lot, at least there is no surprise.
In other words, in Skyler's view, the merger of their shipbuilding companies has been confirmed, and this information is very important. After all, it has not been a few days since the real negotiations were made.
Moreover, everyone promised that they would not announce it to the public for the time being, which means that all this should be out of the "guess" and "reasoning" stage.
But Skyler said...he was so sure, the people who dared to be so sure... they attended the meeting that day and signed the merger agreement, and they were with those who did not sign the merger agreement.
Iceberg has determined that as a community of interests, the presidents around him will not disclose this information in advance. After all, it will not be beneficial to disclose this information unless...
The Navy is determined to stop the merger, so the leaker may receive resources from the Navy's orders.
But if it weren't for people like me, then the most likely one would be the bosses of small shipbuilding companies that refused to sign the merger agreement.
Because once these seven major companies join forces with some small and medium-sized companies to merge, sharing of technology and interoperability with resources will squeeze the living space of other shipbuilding companies, so... they do not want to reach cooperation.
But what these people don’t know is that Skyler is so confident that he knows that these companies will merge and merge into Carrera Shipbuilding Company.
She didn't have the intention to guess what these people were thinking, but Nurkic behind Skyler looked at Skyler's back and showed a look of admiration.
Good guy, in a sure tone, raised a question and directly defrauded all the attitudes of these people. If not, his superiors used questions, and there would be no problem.
High! It's really high! Sure enough, I must always remind myself that as Skyler's adjutant, I am solving Skyler's problems, but it is not necessary for him to solve them.
Her commander has this ability, but she has more important things, so some simple and irrelevant things need to be handed over to herself or an adjutant like Rosinandi.
After the self-examination in his heart, Nurkic looked at the iceberg and began to speculate on the iceberg's current psychology. If he was an iceberg, then next...
Acknowledge it! Then ask the Chief and General Akainu to come forward and make a decision on the company's merger.
Bingshan ended his thoughts at this moment, smiled, nodded, and said, "Yes, there are too many pirates now. If they don't merge, they will be bullied too badly by the pirates.
By the way, we originally planned to announce it in three days. If General Akainu and Lieutenant General Skyler have time, I hope you two can attend and even cut the ribbon for our opening."
The expression of the Iceberg is consistent with Nurkic's conjecture, so Nurkic withdrew his gaze, looked at his commander and General Akainu, thinking...
‘At this time, this person should be a bad person. Obviously, this person should not be his chief!’
After thinking about it again, Nurkic locked his eyes on Akainu's back. Sure enough, Akainu said explicitly and implied before Skyler spoke:
"As the Navy, we will not stand on any forces or organizations that stand opposite to justice."
Iceberg wanted Akainu and Skyler to stand up for the merger of their company. Akainu turned around and wanted to stand up for the iceberg. Nurkic, who was guessing, was not happy because... he was one step later than the person in front of him.
After hearing Akainu's hint, Bingshan and others also looked at each other. Of course, they could not afford to offend the navy or the world government.
But at the same time, pirates are also a customer base that they cannot lose. In other words, making money from pirates is their means to make money.
The money earned by cooperating with the world government is guaranteed income and a necessary guaranteed income to keep the company from collapse.
Of course, only the seven major companies think so. After all, in the past, only these seven companies were qualified to compete for orders from the world government. Almost all other small and medium-sized shipyards were retail investors like pirates.
Therefore, they were just worried about offending the Navy and the world government for this matter, and did not expect to lose their jobs.
Iceberg hesitated and said, "General Akainu, Lieutenant General Skyler, you must understand that in the Seven Waters Capital, there are millions of civilians who need shipbuilding. Without shipbuilding, they can't even eat a bite of food.
The shipbuilding industry in the Seven Water Capital is not only us in front of you, but also the shipbuilders, apprentices, laborers, and even catering and accommodation that are not directly related to our shipbuilding company.
Our shipbuilding companies exist not just to make us rich and enjoy ourselves.
If there is no family to support, who would be willing to deal with those murderous pirates!"
As Iceberg said, watching Akainu's face gradually become gloomy, she immediately scolded the pirate. Sure enough, Akainu's face recovered a little, and Bingberg continued:
"General Akainu, we are just some businessmen who are dedicated and do not, and we dare not make those principled mistakes. We firmly support the navy and support the world government!
But we also need to survive, so we need to compromise, deal with criminals, do business, and sometimes risk being robbed or even killed, just to give ourselves and our family a full meal.
I can firmly say that the pirates I hate the most in my life! Because of pirates, I lost my parents, my teachers, and my brothers!"
The more Iceberg spoke, the more excited she became. Akainu calmed down, while Skyler didn't believe what Iceberg said, or... she didn't believe it all, but she was blocked by sunglasses, and her suspicious eyes were not discovered.
The emotional card, the bitter plan, the words of Iceberg do have some effect on Akainu. After Iceberg scolded the pirates, he took a deep breath to adjust his emotions and said:
"General Akainu and Lieutenant General Skyler, sorry, he lost his composure.
What I want to express is that from my heart, I will never stand opposite to justice, but in order to survive, for me, and for the survival of millions of civilians in the Seven Waters Capital, I must trade with pirates, even if this is against my will.
If you two can stand for us, we will not only gain reputation, but also a deterrence to pirates. If you two stand for us...
I believe that those businessmen who are responsible to us, the pirates who raise their butcher knives, will think twice about our simple craftsmen. Isn’t this a just act?”
After hearing this, Akainu nodded instinctively. Seeing this, Skyler rolled his eyes. The acting skills of this Iceberg are more inclined to the drama style, and their performance methods are too exaggerated.
When he just said pirates, his clothes wanted to eat the pirates alive and peel them alive... It's not that no one would hate pirates so much, but... no one would show that attitude in this kind of occasion.
What's more... In front of me is a businessman who has joined forces with countless shipbuilding companies in the Seven Water Capital to complete the merger and is about to become the CEO of the group.
If he can't even control his emotions... Could it be that he was a failed student in the Academy of Fine Arts? The presidents of other companies conquered by his speech? But... the level of speech is still far behind.
However, he was "performing" in front of Akainu, a naval general who also likes to express his feelings directly. Iceberg's performance may not be able to convince even normal people, but... he convinced Akainu.
Although Akainu has not explicitly agreed to stand for the shipbuilding company that will be merged and reopened, judging by what he meant, as long as Skyler also agreed, he would agree to stand for them.
Nurkic also felt a strong sense of embarrassment about the Fauvism acting skills of Iceberg. He looked at his commander and knew that the roles of good and bad people should be changed at this moment.
"I think this matter needs to be considered. After all, our purpose this time is to order ships. If the plan you give after the merger is even worse than before the merger, then I have to consider whether you are really sincere."
After hearing Skyler's words and her calm performance, Iceberg was a little disappointed, and Nurkic smiled. Sure enough, his superiors won the best of such superficial skills.
To be continued...